Someone who works at a dental office actually asked this (stupid) question online about using a stolen credit card. Would she have any hesitation about embezzling?
Home > Media > Embezzlement Blog > Someone who works at a dental office actually asked this (stupid) question online about using a stolen credit card. Would she have any hesitation about embezzling?What You'll Learn
- The real online post from a dental office employee describing how she and a coworker stole a purse from an unlocked car in a Walmart parking lot, keeping the cell phone and a credit card inside.
- How she used the stolen credit card to buy a $400 gift card at a nail salon, then nearly got away with it until a follow-up phone call to the salon revealed she was calling from her dental office workplace.
- The blunt anonymous reply warning her that getting caught means grand theft and credit card fraud charges, jail time, prison time, and fines running into the thousands of dollars.
- Why CEO David Harris says small acts of employee dishonesty like this are warning signs practice owners shouldn't ignore, and how Prosperident's First Look review checks whether such concerns are justified.
What You'll Learn
- The real online post from a dental office employee describing how she and a coworker stole a purse from an unlocked car in a Walmart parking lot, keeping the cell phone and a credit card inside.
- How she used the stolen credit card to buy a $400 gift card at a nail salon, then nearly got away with it until a follow-up phone call to the salon revealed she was calling from her dental office workplace.
- The blunt anonymous reply warning her that getting caught means grand theft and credit card fraud charges, jail time, prison time, and fines running into the thousands of dollars.
- Why CEO David Harris says small acts of employee dishonesty like this are warning signs practice owners shouldn't ignore, and how Prosperident's First Look review checks whether such concerns are justified.
Will I get caught if I charged a stolen credit card?
My coworker and I were parking at Walmart when we see a cart with a purse. It was both of our ideas to get the purse and search it, but I’m the one who got off and got it. She kept the cell phone for herself and I took a credit card. I charged the credit card to a nail salon as a $400 gift card. I know have the gift card from the salon of $400 my coworker got rid of the purse. The downfall is that I called the nail salon and she mentioned that I was calling from a dental place (my work) I told her that that wasn’t really where I worked that I worked down the street at another place but that we’ve been getting many calls about problems with our phone lines. I told her my sister was gonna got pick up the gift cards but I went instead and she had no idea I was the girl on the phone.
Will I get caught if I charged a stolen credit card?
What can happen? Can I get caught?
And here is the winning answer:
Here’s the really cool part of this whole deal: when you ARE caught, you get to go to jail, where the other girls will beat you up and steal all of your belongings.
Then, you get to go to court, where you will be convicted of grand theft and credit card fraud. You’ll be sentenced to more jail time, and hopefully, prison time. You’ll also be fined – probably thousands of dollars. Of course, you won’t make your payments to the court for the restitution or the fines, and you’ll go back to court for failure to pay. The judge will sentence you to more time in jail, and you’ll still owe the fines.
Of course, you’ll figure out that you’ll have to keep stealing to make enough money to pay off the court, but you’ll get caught again. As a repeat offender, you’ll go to prison. There, some bull dyke will make you her “wife,” and you’ll have a very special relationship with your new master. And you’ll probably get shanked a few times, cut up with razors and such, so your pretty face will be a mess of scars.
Eventually, they’ll let you out of prison, and you’ll find that you can’t get a job because you’re a convicted felon and because no one wants you working the “want fries with that” counter because you’d scare their customers off with your scarred up face. You’ll end up turning tricks to make money, and one after another of your customers will beat you up, steal from you, rape you, and break your bones.
You’ll turn to drugs to try and ease the pain, and get into deep debt with your dealer. He will become your pimp, making you go out every night to make enough money to pay him off. You’ll get beat up more often, and life will just suck.
A thief like you is a pathetic excuse for a person.
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Will I get caught if I charged a stolen credit card?
My coworker and I were parking at Walmart when we see a cart with a purse. It was both of our ideas to get the purse and search it, but I’m the one who got off and got it. She kept the cell phone for herself and I took a credit card. I charged the credit card to a nail salon as a $400 gift card. I know have the gift card from the salon of $400 my coworker got rid of the purse. The downfall is that I called the nail salon and she mentioned that I was calling from a dental place (my work) I told her that that wasn’t really where I worked that I worked down the street at another place but that we’ve been getting many calls about problems with our phone lines. I told her my sister was gonna got pick up the gift cards but I went instead and she had no idea I was the girl on the phone.
What can happen? Can I get caught?
And here is the winning answer:
Here’s the really cool part of this whole deal: when you ARE caught, you get to go to jail, where the other girls will beat you up and steal all of your belongings.
Then, you get to go to court, where you will be convicted of grand theft and credit card fraud. You’ll be sentenced to more jail time, and hopefully, prison time. You’ll also be fined – probably thousands of dollars. Of course, you won’t make your payments to the court for the restitution or the fines, and you’ll go back to court for failure to pay. The judge will sentence you to more time in jail, and you’ll still owe the fines.
Of course, you’ll figure out that you’ll have to keep stealing to make enough money to pay off the court, but you’ll get caught again. As a repeat offender, you’ll go to prison. There, some bull dyke will make you her “wife,” and you’ll have a very special relationship with your new master. And you’ll probably get shanked a few times, cut up with razors and such, so your pretty face will be a mess of scars.
Eventually, they’ll let you out of prison, and you’ll find that you can’t get a job because you’re a convicted felon and because no one wants you working the “want fries with that” counter because you’d scare their customers off with your scarred up face. You’ll end up turning tricks to make money, and one after another of your customers will beat you up, steal from you, rape you, and break your bones.
You’ll turn to drugs to try and ease the pain, and get into deep debt with your dealer. He will become your pimp, making you go out every night to make enough money to pay him off. You’ll get beat up more often, and life will just suck.
A thief like you is a pathetic excuse for a person.
Have questions about your practice?
.Don't Ignore the Warning Signs Your Staff Are Showing You.
When employees demonstrate dishonest behavior—even small things—it's time to look more carefully. Prosperident's First Look review can tell you whether the concerns are justified.
About the author
David Harris
Forensic CPA, CFE, CFF, FIADFE — Chief Executive Officer, Prosperident
David Harris is the Chief Executive Officer of Prosperident, the world's largest dental embezzlement investigation firm. A Forensic CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified in Financial Forensics, he has led investigations into financial crime in dental practices since 1989 and speaks regularly to dental audiences across North America on detecting and preventing embezzlement.
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